KMST V340/V341 ~ Castle of Lionheart

When I read that the patch file was over 70 MB, I immediately thought of a big update. And yes, it is~
Do you remember that mysterious castle in the background of El Nath, every time you walk down the path to Zakum?

The Castle of Lionheart.After many years of service, it’s finally open to public…
The world map isn’t updated yet, so I don’t know if that castle in the background is really the castle of Lionheart… But, it’s in El Nath and you see mountains when you’re there.

To enter the castle of Lionheart, you will need to navigate to Sharp Cliff 4 in El Nath.

A new platform and portal has been added. When you enter the portal, you will have to walk to another portal to reach the open gate of the castle of Lionheart.

I made a video of the castle of Lionheart. I couldn’t enter some areas because of quests.

I like this castle, it’s nice, the music is really great and I’m so happy that there’s finally some content for players above Lv. 120.

In this castle there are monsters that have millions of HP, so you must bring a party of high leveled friends or guild members with you to complete the quests. The main quests are all about getting drops from monsters, but even in the test server the drop rate low. It annoyed me because it took me and my guild member a good amount of time to get all the drops and complete the quests.

There is a quest where you need to kill 33 Grey Vultures. Okay, I thought that this quest was pretty good because the others were all about drops while this one is just killing. But the damn vultures have invincibility frames and it took us some time to kill because sometimes it wouldn’t take damage…

There are new monsters in the castle of Lionheart. I like the big green one.

LV: 80
HP: 141,000
EXP: 610

LV: 127
HP: 12,000,000

LV: 85
HP: 146,000
EXP: 820

LV: 127
HP: 12,500,000

LV: 115
HP: 26,500,000
EXP: 460,000
Boss

LV: 120
HP: 34,500,000
EXP: 602,000
Boss

LV: 125
HP: 42,500,000
EXP: 646,000
Boss

LV: 125
HP: 98,900,000
EXP: 1,300,000
Boss

LV: 125
HP: 9,500,000
EXP: 205,993

LV: 125
HP: 11,500,000
EXP: 249,360

LV: 123
HP: 10,000,000

Bonus party EXP will be applied in some maps of the castle of Lionheart!
One party member gives 50% extra bonus party EXP. When you’re hunting with a total of 6 party members, you’ll gain an extra 250% bonus party EXP!!

There is one last ”monster” that resides in the castle of Lionheart, which is the king himself.

Van Leon. He wanted his kingdom to be peaceful. He denied to cooperate with half Black Magician, and because of that he lost his kingdom. He got pissed off, so he decided to cooperate with the Black Magician and gave his soul to him to avenge…

LV: 129
HP: 550,000,000
EXP: 884,000
Boss

Van Leon has a lot of tricks skills in store for you when you’re fighting against him.
But, before you can fight Van Leon, you have to complete the mandatory quests. When you finished everything, you have one quest left where you have to hunt for Castle Golem for a dirty scroll. Return the scroll for a clean one and you’re able to use it.

When I double-clicked the scroll, it warped me to a different area where you can sign up for an expedition squad to fight Van Leon.
You need an expedition squad of six members to enter.

Unfortunately, I haven’t participated in the Van Leon fight yet, but I will be able soon and I will make a video of it. ^^
Imagine that you defeated Van Leon… What happens next? A whole new set (Van Leon set) was added. The stats are amazing, but I don’t know about Nexon…

So I told you that you have to complete all the quests, right? I forgot to tell you that once you completed a special quest of an NPC called Mutt, he will be able to sell you Van Leon equipment! Take a look ▼

Nice weapons? In version 1.2.340 the Van Leon equipment were statless. In version 1.2.341, requirement stats were added as you can see in the images above.
All Van Leon weapons and equipment are untradeable, but can be made tradeable with a Platinum Karma Scissor.
On top of that, there’s a set bonus if you have the helmet, overall, glove, shoe, cape and weapon equipped!

Even though I haven’t defeated Van Leon yet, I think the medals are coming from the big boss, Van Leon himself. In the test server you only need one medal for each equipment/weapon, but that’s only for testing purposes. Expect it to be a lot more after the official patch!

In the end, the castle of Lionheart is just an open place that everybody can enter. If you’re high leveled (+120), you will be fine, as long as you have party members. And for those who said Lionheart is a guild partyquest. It’s not.

Lionheart is not the only new content in this patch because it seems that the Knights of Cygnus will be making a grand comeback.
There is a new type of classification, sort of… It’s called Ultimate Adventurer. I’m not really sure how this all works since I haven’t tried it out yet.

What is an Ultimate Adventurer? It’s basically an Adventurer with benefits. New skills, that is.
How can I become one? First of all, you need a Lv. 120 Cygnus character with the Captain Knight title.
Then, you can become an Ultimate Adventurer by talking to the empress of Ereb.

Now this is what I assume what will happen. When you talked to the empress, a new window will popup.
You can enter your character name and choose your job, face and hairstyle. After that, you have to log out and you will probably see a new character which is the Ultimate Adventurer à la old Cygnus creation method.

What kind of benefits does an Ultimate Adventurer have? A special Cygnus skill.
From Lv. 50 until Lv. 90, every 10 levels you reach, you automatically gain 1 SP for your Cygnus skill.

All skills have a master level of 5 and deal a decent amount of damage at max. level.
I leveled up a Knights of Cygnus character through Mr. Goldstein hihi, so I didn’t try this out. OTL

That’s not it! In the patch note of this test server version that every character (Adventurer, Aran, Evan, Resistance, Cygnus, Dual Blade) will have a new type of blessing in their beginner skillbook.

The Empress’ Blessing
Every 5 levels earned on a Cygnus character means 1 SP distributed in the blessing skill on your main or other character. The maximum level cap of the Knights of Cygnus is 120. 120/5 = 24. Which is correct because the Empress’ Blessing has a master level of 24.You can now get 24 weapon attack/magic, accuracy and avoidability.

The Empress’ Blessing does not stack with Spirit’s Blessing.
In the description of the Empress’ Blessing skill, it says that the effect will only apply if one of the blessings is higher than the other.

If you have Lv. 20 Spirit’s Blessing and Lv. 21 Empress’ Blessing, the effect of Empress’ Blessing will apply.

Like I said before, the Knights of Cygnus will be making a comeback and they will need a strong comeback, therefore all Knights of Cygnus characters can obtain the following two skills:

The Empress’ CallIt adds 20% HP and MP permanently. I have no idea when and how you can obtain this skill. Master level is 1.

The Empress’ PrayerFor 2 hours, your weapon and magic attack increases by 4%. The buff will stay active until the time runs out. If you die, the buff doesn’t disappear. Cooldown: 1 day
The same goes for this one, I don’t know when and how you obtain it, but knowing the potential of this skill, I think when you advance at Lv. 120.
Master level is 1.

At last, the Ultimate Adventurer gets a special Cygnus skill which I already mentioned and they get another skill from the empress. Only the Ultimate Adventurer can use it!

The Empress’ StrengtheningWith the Empress’ Strengthening, you are able to wear items 10 levels earlier. For example, you can wear Lv. 120 Reverse/Timeless equipment when you’re Lv. 110. Master level is 1.

All fourth job advancements require mastery books to obtain and upgrade skills. Costs for the books are hard to track in KMS, as there are only 2 or 3 4th job Mechanics in the english alliance of Culverin server. And knowing that Mechanics just came out, the 4th job skill books will be expensive in the free market until supply increases and demand decreases. The books cannot be bought from the Cash Shop in KMS, but that doesn’t mean that GMS won’t do that. Considering that three new jobs were released in just under a month, though, I don’t think the GMS community would take too kindly to having to buy their mastery books from the Cash Shop (especially if you can’t get them any other way, like with DB 2nd job and Evan skills, and if that happens with all three jobs). You can never underestimate Nexon America, though… :/

Yes. All characters will have the Blessing of the Spirit available but also the Blessing of the Empress. For the Blessing of the Empress skill, you gain 1 SP for every 5 levels from your Cygnus character.

Wow, that easily is one of the most hardcore and wrench-throwingly-awesome bosses I’ve ever seen in Maple.

Anywho, I hope it’s supposed to be the castle in the back of El Nath on the way to Dead Mine, that castle has been there since the beginning of time and I always wanted it to see it have at least something in it!

My same thoughts, is it that nexon korea is getting lazy? (what was the last dungeon they released that is as big as ToT, dragon forest and victoria/el nath/ludi?)

I mean yeah you see some nice things that Mush kingdom doens’t have but how the maps are made gives you the mush castle vibe, although you can argue that how they could make it not like the mush castle or that castles are made like this in maple world.

It is common sense that ossyria is the mainland and is thus MUCH larger in land area than victoria island. This can be validated by these 2 examples.

1. the world map
2.the long ship rides

However, victoria island itself has more maps than any region of ossyria, i.e. ossyria is not explored/developed well. I’m sure all of you know of the disparity in map density.

Thus, opening up more sub-sections would serve to fill the vast empty void.

I think that these areas are well developed.
Maple Island
Ereve
Rien
(at above, not much maps, but they’re little islands)
Victoria Island*****
Masteria(not bad for a quarter of the island)****
Leafre****
Ludibruim****

Very nice! Unfortunately, the equips didn’t beat the Visitor armor and same goes for the Van Leon vs. VIP weapons. But at least KMS made it possible to get these equips, GMS on the other hand…..

The Green Turtle boss, could there only be 1 in multiple forms? It would be a bit unoriginal for Nexon to make the exacty same looking bosses with only having different skill frames.

Spadow, in Fiel’s extraction, there were lvl 60 and 80 equips that were named after the empress, what has become of them? Also, if we already have a lvl 12 CK, can we make our current adventurer an ultimate one or does it have to be a brand new adventurer?

i don’t get it.
A skill you can get at lvl 60 with a mastery lvl of 16. but you can only put one point every 10 lvls in it. That doesnt make any sence. That means you can never master it.
Or am i missing something here?

One handed swords are far more powerful in comparison to two-handed swords post big bang.
Currently, a normal two handed sword has a 5% dpm advantage over a fast one handed sword without a shield. After the big bang, that advantage is reduced to 1.2%. Meaning even the weakest Watt shields would allow a one handed set up surpass a two handed set up.

For my point, I believe that nexon didnt create a one handed version, because it would be must stronger than the two handed version.

Will Pre-Existing Adventurers be able to benefit from the Ultimate Adventurer skills? If not then it seems like my Hero is becoming more and more obsolete… I don’t want to quit him, I met my irl gf on him and I’ve played him for 4 years. Alot to give up… but he keeps getting pwned.

When you say the new Cygnus Blessing “stacks”, do you mean it stacks with the current blessing skill we have, or do you mean we can have multiple cygnus knights and the skill will stack multiple times?

-.-” buffs more buff and another buff after the next. kinda happy i quit now. nexon just seems to be tossing dmg crap in to keep there players to build there income. yay for more breaking of the game =o.

So wait… You’re telling me my lvl 200 bishop will be weaker because he’s not an ultimate adventurer? Is there a way that change that? Because that’s just garbage there’s not. I’m assuming, however, that he’ll be able to get the blessing of the empress or whatever, just as Blessing of Fairy was automatically put into other characters when it was released. Is this correct?

The description of the Empress’ Blessing is correct. It says that if one blessing is higher than the other blessing, the effect of the highest level blessing will apply.
So the Empress’ Blessing is better since post-Big Bang because it’s much easier to level to 120 and you get 1 SP per 5 levels.

To all those people wondering about if skills will work with different weapons. THEY ARE DIFFERENT SKILLS!!!! Nexon would have allowed them to be used with 1 of the 2 or 3 class weapons. Guys think logically.

If you look at its animation it seems that it works with any class snce it looks like you summon one of the instructors and then he/she uses the skill, which at the same time might make them too slow to be useful, but at the same time you can see a sin using the BW attack or a warrior using the sharks or even a archer using the DW skill.

@Waitin I know and I posted the other skills but the post got deleted, don’t know why.
Just in case that this post doesn’t get deleted http://www.southperry.net/showthread.php?t=31752 look at the effects of each skill in the Adventurer Only tab.

This is what I’m worrying about too. Let’s say I’m already 120 and I already have the quest and an extra character slot. I make the ultimate adventurer, logout then log back in. Will the ultimate adventurer be on the remaining character slot? Or will it take over my CK’s slot therefore leaving me with a lowbie and no 120CK? :-S

Does the empress blessing work like the fairy one?
Example: if i have a lvl 100 sniper, a lvl 62 aran and a lvl 30 evan on the same world, Snpier will have lvl 6 fairy blessing and aran and evan will have lvl 10 blessing.
So with empress blessing if i have a lvl 120 Blaze wiz, a lvl 30 aran and a lvl 62 evan, both low level character will get lvl 24 empress blessing (????

OMG i just found this thread and started going crazy googling everywhere about this Ultimate Adventurer D: ] ZOMG! ahahha, i read somewhere that at lvl 70 your adventurer (granted that you have a lvl 120 ck) can get the cygnus skill through some quest? Is this true, then if it is then would my adventurer be considered an ultimate adventurer or just an adventurer with a ck skill?

Hey Spadow! Can u tell me please if the potential: “30% damage on boss” monsters works on Van Leon Castle monsters in KMS? Cos i hear that when it came out in KMS it didnt and after a few weeks it did. Almost every monster in Van Leon Castle is tagged like Boss, but it seems “30% boss” doesn’t work in GMS. If it perma dont work in KMS i should re-cube my weapon D: